BACKGROUND Resistin is an adipocyte hormone that regulates glucose metabolism. Elevated levels of resistin may cause insulin resistance. This may link obesity, and increased fat mass to type II diabetes and insulin resistance. We hypothesized that treatment with tomato and broccoli extracts regulates glucose homeostasis via modulation of resistin levels in high fat diet-induced obesity rats (HF...

a r t i c l e i n f o The interfacial electronic properties and charge transfer characteristics of pyrite, FeS 2 , are greatly influenced by the presence of electronic states at the crystal free surface. We investigate the surface electronic structure of FeS 2 (100) using scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and interpret the results using tunneling current simulations informed by density func...

UNLABELLED Q.Clear, a Bayesian penalized-likelihood reconstruction algorithm for PET, was recently introduced by GE Healthcare on their PET scanners to improve clinical image quality and quantification. In this work, we determined the optimum penalization factor (beta) for clinical use of Q.Clear and compared Q.Clear with standard PET reconstructions. METHODS A National Electrical Manufacture...

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the synthesis of smcl3(thf)3 from smcl3.6h2o is described. the reaction of smcl3(thf)3 with nabh4 in dry thf gave white microcrystalline tris (tetrahydroborato) tris (tetrahydrofuran) samarium (iii), sm(bh4)3(thf)3. the vibrational and magnetic properties of sm(bh4)3(thf)3 have been studied.